Roger Goodell sends letter to NFL teams

[Brian37]

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No, nothing neutral at all.

The pay gap America has is a direct result of bad GOP policy since Reagan. While blacks have historically been affected more negatively, I find it vile that players simply looking at their backgrounds and pointing the inequity that still exists in all businesses, and being vilified because they move up and simply say, "others are not as lucky as me, lets help them"

There is nothing to be neutral about here. We are still stuck as a country on race, we should not be, but we are. 

Fuck 45 and fuck Pence. 45 started his assault on minorities 5 years ago. Vilified multiple groups during his run and has proven that this is just a sport to him, spite for him, and if urban blacks and rural whites cant make ends meet, blaming black rich athletes is an easy and cheap tactic to divide America.

I protest with the black players. I protest with all workers. I am tired of the top dictating to everyone.

Thanks for the chronic victim statement. I'd never have guessed. But you forgot big oil, you must be ill.

Bullshit.

There is chronic racism, and there is chronic vilification of all workers trying to bargain for better wages. But no, I am not personally a victim, for recognizing the bullshit the GOP has sold for decades.

Yes big oil too. We don't even have to make this about race as far as greed destroying our planet, the science is in, and the sane have been screaming for decades that we as a planet need to get off burning fossil fuels.

There are 64 worldwide billionaires whom collectively have the combined wealth of 3 billion people. If the planet and America WOULD stop ignoring that, race could go away. But don't blow smoke up my ass and pretend we are a post racial west, because we wouldn't be seeing this shit at all if that were the case.

There is only one right side on this issue. Singing a song is not a law, nor should it be. If you want forced ritual try North Korea.

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If you have to force people to stand for your anthem, then your country has bigger problems than that anthem already.

Force isn't the theme of the First Amendment or the Oath of Office. Even with the oath of office it says you cannot be forced to swear an oath to a god you don't believe in. And since the National Anthem and Pledge have never been legal documents, but merely voluntary ceremony I find it vile and disgusting to think voluntary rituals should be forced on anyone.

I agree, and right now our problem as a nation is that we have allowed a bullshit artist pander to xenophobes and racists.